Joan (Christina Hendricks) awaits her fate Michael Yarish/AMC Through the duration of “A Tale of Two Cities”, characters concern themselves with business, and the pleasure or pain that goes along with it. It is an episode that features characters like […]

Betty (January Jones) Michael Yarish/AMC Not gonna lie, this one felt like the good ole days. Thus far into Mad Men‘s sixth season, many of the episodes have felt completely random and purposeless, namely last week’s “The Crash” in addition to early episodes “Collaborators” […]

Cutler (Harry Hamlin) and Stan (Jay R. Ferguson) race through the office Jordin Althaus/AMC Every season of Mad Men, there is an episode that diverges from the show’s usual traditional, slow-burn storytelling. These episodes are usually experimental in ways that feel innovative, such as “The Suitcase” from season […]

Michael Yarish/AMC Ah, the big merger episode. The aftermath of last episode’s impromptu merge between SCDP and CGC has resulted in an episode that almost feels like the start of yet another new show. At the same time, though, characters repeat their histories in such a way that shows how very few of […]